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RUN * 114 active pipelines * skyscanner.com live

Skyscanner data,
at warehouse scale.

We extract flight routes, dynamic pricing signals, OTA comparisons, hotel rates, and car hire inventory from Skyscanner. Delivered as clean JSON, CSV, or Parquet to S3, BigQuery, or Snowflake on your cadence.

Itineraries extracted
1.2M /day
Price updates
8.4M /24h
OTA comparisons
450K /run
Active pipelines
114
Uptime
99.94%
Data Dictionary

Every field we extract from skyscanner.com

Structured, schema-consistent data across all major object types — delivered clean, typed, and ready to query.

Complete list of extractable fields for Flight Routes objects from skyscanner.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

itinerary_idorigin_airportdestination_airportairlineflight_numberdeparture_timearrival_timeduration_minutesstopsstopover_airports
flight_routes
● 200 OK
"itinerary_id": "LHR-JFK-BA117",
"origin_airport": "LHR",
"destination_airport": "JFK",
"airline": "British Airways",
"flight_number": "BA117",
"departure_time": "2026-10-12T08:25:00Z",
"arrival_time": "2026-10-12T11:15:00Z",
"duration_minutes": 470,
"stops": 0
# itinerary_idorigin_airportdestination_airportairlineflight_numberdeparture_time
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Complete list of extractable fields for Pricing & OTAs objects from skyscanner.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

itinerary_idota_namepricecurrencydeep_linkfare_classbaggage_includedcancellation_policyscraped_at
pricing_& otas
● 200 OK
"itinerary_id": "LHR-JFK-BA117",
"ota_name": "Trip.com",
"price": 412.5,
"currency": "GBP",
"fare_class": "Economy",
"baggage_included": false,
"scraped_at": "2026-05-12T09:14:00Z"
# itinerary_idota_namepricecurrencydeep_linkfare_class
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Complete list of extractable fields for Hotel Inventory objects from skyscanner.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

hotel_idhotel_namelocation_coordinatesstar_ratingprice_per_nighttotal_priceota_namereview_scorereview_countamenities
hotel_inventory
● 200 OK
"hotel_name": "The Hoxton, Williamsburg",
"star_rating": 4,
"price_per_night": 285.0,
"total_price": 855.0,
"ota_name": "Booking.com",
"review_score": 8.9,
"review_count": 1422
# hotel_idhotel_namelocation_coordinatesstar_ratingprice_per_nighttotal_price
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Complete list of extractable fields for Car Hire objects from skyscanner.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

pickup_locationdropoff_locationcar_typeproviderpricecurrencytransmissionseatsmileage_policyfuel_policy
car_hire
● 200 OK
"pickup_location": "JFK Terminal 4",
"car_type": "Compact SUV",
"provider": "Hertz",
"price": 64.0,
"currency": "USD",
"transmission": "Automatic",
"mileage_policy": "Unlimited"
# pickup_locationdropoff_locationcar_typeproviderpricecurrency
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Complete list of extractable fields for Carbon & Metadata objects from skyscanner.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

flight_numberaircraft_typeco2_emissions_kgco2_difference_pctlegroom_incheswifi_availablepower_outletslayout
carbon_& metadata
● 200 OK
"flight_number": "BA117",
"aircraft_type": "Boeing 777",
"co2_emissions_kg": 412,
"co2_difference_pct": -14,
"legroom_inches": 31,
"wifi_available": true,
"power_outlets": true
# flight_numberaircraft_typeco2_emissions_kgco2_difference_pctlegroom_incheswifi_available
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Capabilities

Everything you need from Skyscanner - nothing you don't

Our Skyscanner scraper handles the entire aggregator lifecycle: dynamic route generation, asynchronous OTA polling, geo-targeted pricing, and anti-bot circumvention.

Flight Itinerary Extraction

Origin, destination, airline, flight numbers, departure times, duration, and layover details scraped at the individual leg level.

Real-Time Price Tracking

Capture live pricing across dozens of OTAs and direct airline feeds for a single itinerary, timestamped per crawl.

Geo-Targeted Pricing

Extract prices based on specific point-of-sale IP locations to monitor regional price discrimination and currency variations.

Hotel & Accommodation Data

Extract hotel names, star ratings, aggregate review scores, and nightly rates across multiple booking platforms.

Car Hire Aggregation

Provider names, vehicle classes, transmission types, and rental policies mapped against daily rates.

Carbon Emission Metrics

Extract Greener Choice labels, CO2 emission calculations in kilograms, and percentage differences from route averages.

Baggage & Fare Rules

Identify basic economy restrictions, included cabin baggage, checked luggage fees, and ticket flexibility.

Multi-City & Return Routes

Support for complex itinerary configurations including open-jaw tickets and multi-stop global routing.

Scheduled + Streaming Modes

Run one-off bulk exports or configure continuous pipelines at hourly, daily, or real-time cadences with change-detection diffing.

// engagement pipeline

From route list to warehouse record

Brief in. Clean data out.

Define Scope
d 0

Provide airport pairs, date ranges, or hotel locations. We design the extraction schema together.

Pipeline Build
d 2–4

We configure Scrapy / Playwright crawlers, proxy rotation, session management, and CAPTCHA handling for skyscanner.com.

Validation & QA
d 4–6

Schema validation, null-rate checks, price-outlier detection, and sample routes before full launch.

Delivery
ongoing

JSON / CSV / Parquet pushed to your S3 bucket, BigQuery dataset, or Snowflake stage on agreed cadence.

Under the hood

How our Skyscanner pipeline handles the hard parts

Aggregators invest heavily in scraping detection. Here is how we stay resilient - and why teams choose managed infrastructure over DIY.

pipeline-monitor · skyscanner.com · live ● active
// fingerprinting
Identity rotation
TLS fingerprintrandomised
User-agentrotated
IP poolresidential
Challenges blocked0
// pagination
Page coverage
48,291 pages queued running
// observability
Pipeline health
99.9%
uptime
142ms
p99 lat
0.3%
null rate
2
alerts
Anti-bot layer
Residential proxy rotation + fingerprint spoofing

Skyscanner employs aggressive bot detection. Our crawlers use residential ISP proxies with realistic browser fingerprints, randomised request timing, and full cookie session management to maintain access.

Asynchronous loading
Dynamic OTA polling waits

Flight results load progressively as Skyscanner queries backend OTAs. Our Playwright scripts monitor network idle states and DOM mutations to ensure all third-party prices populate before extraction.

Geo-fencing
Point-of-sale IP matching

Flight prices change based on the user location. We route requests through specific country-level proxy nodes to extract accurate local pricing and currency data.

Schema stability
Resilient selectors with fallback chains

Aggregator DOM structures mutate constantly. Our selector strategy uses multiple fallback chains per field - CSS selectors, XPath, and text-pattern matching - ensuring continuous data flow.

Monitoring & alerting
24/7 pipeline health with anomaly detection

Every run emits structured logs to our observability stack. We alert on null-rate spikes, price outliers, schema drift, and coverage drops.

Applications

Who uses Skyscanner data - and how

Teams across industries use skyscanner.com data to build competitive products and smarter operations.

01
Price Intelligence & OTA Monitoring

Airlines and OTAs monitor competitor pricing, fare class availability, and direct-booking parity across routes.

02
Revenue Management

Pricing teams analyse market demand signals, competitor load factors, and pricing curves to optimise their own seat inventory.

03
Corporate Travel Compliance

Enterprise travel managers audit internal booking tools against public aggregator rates to ensure policy compliance.

04
Market Research

Analysts track route capacity, new airline entries, and regional pricing trends to identify underserved markets.

05
Travel Aggregation

Niche travel startups use aggregator data to build specialised booking experiences or dynamic package holidays.

06
AI Route Optimisation

Machine learning models train on historical pricing and duration data to predict future fare drops and optimal booking windows.

Why DataFlirt

"Skyscanner aggregates the global travel market, but extracting that pricing matrix requires navigating severe anti-bot protections and asynchronous data loads."

Most teams underestimate the compute required to scrape flight aggregators. Reliable Skyscanner extraction requires geo-targeted residential proxies, full JavaScript execution, and dynamic wait times for OTA polling. DataFlirt absorbs that complexity so your engineers can focus on pricing models.

Technical Spec

Skyscanner scraper - technical capabilities

Everything supported by our skyscanner.com scraper — rendered SPA elements, auth walls, rate-limit evasion and beyond.

JavaScript rendering
Full Playwright sessions - required for asynchronous OTA results and price loading
Supported
CAPTCHA bypass
Automated 2Captcha + CapSolver integration with fallback to manual queue
Supported
Residential proxy rotation
ISP-grade residential IPs for precise point-of-sale geo-targeting
Supported
Async result waiting
Network idle detection to capture late-loading OTA prices
Supported
Multi-currency support
Extraction of native currency values based on regional settings
Supported
Change detection (diffs)
Hash-based diff: only emit records with changed fields since last run
Supported
Webhook delivery
HTTP POST per record or batch - useful for real-time pricing alerts
Supported
Carbon metrics extraction
Capture of Greener Choice labels and CO2 calculations
Supported
User account bookings
Execution of actual flight purchases or account management
Partial
Saved price alerts
Extraction of user-specific saved alerts and historical account data
Partial
Infrastructure

Infrastructure powering the Skyscanner pipeline

Open-source tooling on proven cloud infra — no vendor lock-in, full observability.

ScrapyPlaywrightPython 3.12RedisPostgreSQLApache AirflowAWS LambdaS3CloudWatch2CaptchaCapSolverResidential ProxiesDockerKubernetesGrafanaPrometheus
Scrapy + Playwright Stack

Scrapy handles crawl orchestration and retry logic. Playwright manages JavaScript rendering, cookie sessions, and OTA polling waits.

Residential Proxy Infrastructure

We maintain pools of residential ISP proxies across global regions. Rotation happens per-request to ensure accurate point-of-sale pricing.

Cloud-Native Orchestration

Pipelines run on AWS Lambda and ECS. Airflow handles scheduling and dependency management. All state stored in managed Postgres.

Output & Delivery

Your data, your destination

Data delivered to where your team already works — no new tooling required.

JSON
Newline-delimited or nested - schema versioned per run
CSV
Flat file with typed columns - Excel/Sheets compatible
Parquet
Columnar format for BigQuery, Snowflake, Athena
S3
Direct bucket delivery - compatible with any data lake
Webhook
HTTP POST per record for real-time downstream processing
API
RESTful endpoints to query extracted dataset
XLS
Legacy spreadsheet format for business analysts
BigQuery
Streamed directly into your dataset with schema auto-detect
// faq

Common questions.

About skyscanner.com scraping, legality, and pipeline operations.

Ask us directly →
Is scraping Skyscanner legal?

Scraping publicly available pricing and route information is generally permissible under applicable law. DataFlirt targets only public, non-authenticated travel data. We do not extract personal data or circumvent authentication walls. Clients should review terms of service and consult legal counsel for specific use cases.

How do you handle incomplete OTA results?

Skyscanner loads OTA prices asynchronously. Our Playwright implementation monitors network traffic and DOM mutations, waiting until the loading indicator resolves before extracting the final price matrix.

Can you extract prices for specific point-of-sale locations?

Yes. We route requests through country-specific residential proxies to mimic local users, ensuring you capture accurate geo-targeted pricing and currency variations.

How fresh is the data?

Real-time streaming pipelines achieve sub-5-minute latency for specific route queries. Bulk catalogue refreshes complete within agreed SLA windows depending on route volume.

Do you support multi-city and return flights?

Yes. Our schema supports complex itinerary arrays, capturing each leg of a multi-city journey or return flight independently while maintaining the total trip price.

Can I request a sample dataset before committing?

Absolutely. We provide a sample run of up to 100 route pairs as part of the pre-engagement scoping process, allowing you to validate schema fit and data quality.

$ dataflirt scope --new-project --source=skyscanner.com ready

Tell us what
to extract.
We do the rest.

20-minute scoping call. Pilot dataset within the week. Production within two. Whether you need a one-off route export or continuous price-monitoring across 10,000 airport pairs - we scope, build, and operate the pipeline. Tell us what you need.

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